Courtesy of NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day, I present one of the most interesting examples of unintuitive physics: the curvature of spacetime to produce a gravitational lens. The ring that you see here is not the shock wave from a supernova affecting the surrounding gases, as I first thought, but actually a blue [...]
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December 21st, 2011 | Tags: general relativity, gravitational lensing, Hubble Space Telescope, LRG 3-757 | Category: Astronomy, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
 Leave a commentAs I indicated in the previous post, we had a trip planned that might produce some new images, and while I’d like to build the suspense to the point of frustration, I find this a hard thing to do, especially when I lead the post off with a header photo. So yes, we did [...] October 27th, 2011 | Tags: Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Argus Pheasant, Argusianus argus, Bucorvus abyssinicus, Danphe, Dark-winged Trumpeter, endangered species, Goura victoria, Grus antigone, Himalayan Monal Pheasant, Impeyan Monal, Lophophorus impejanus, Mike Lubbock, Psophia viridis, Sarus Crane, Scotland Neck, Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Victoria Crowned Pigeons | Category: Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI know it’s short notice, but I just found out about it myself, courtesy of The Manatee. If you get Discovery Channel, there is a new show premiering tonight right after Mythbusters, going by the pseudonym of Penn & Teller Tell A Lie, and it sounds like it should be pretty cool. I’ll be [...] I actually get chills when watching the following video – it’s just too cool seeing this all come together: I’ve known this video for a couple of years now, and there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with it; at least with the tour that culminated from it. That, however, was only the lead-in [...] August 28th, 2011 | Tags: nobody chundered, nobody gets eaten either, Walking With Dinosaurs | Category: Humor, Random, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI’ve related this in part elsewhere on the site, but I thought it deserved its own post, especially since it was one of the more memorable experiences from a few years ago. When I lived in Florida, I started “maintaining” a small saltwater aquarium to house photo subjects and interesting marine critters. Being close [...] August 17th, 2011 | Tags: Alpheus heterochaelis, Bigclaw Snapping Shrimp, Clibanarius vittatus, grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, Pistol shrimp, snapping shrimp, sonoluminescence, Thinstripe Hermit Crab | Category: Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI just got word that the secular military event, “Rock Beyond Belief”, has been re-approved and is scheduled for March 31, 2012! As you no doubt remember because you’ve read everything I’ve ever posted (snerk!), the event was originally scheduled for April of this year, but then was forced to cancel as a series [...] August 4th, 2011 | Tags: Fort Bragg, Justin Griffith, M*A*S*H, MAAF, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, Military Atheists and Secular Humanists, Rock Beyond Belief | Category: Critical Thinking, Random, Too Cool |
Leave a commentI’m back from the trip, having extended the stay by a few days, and found that you all began tearing up the comments while I was away. I guess I expected no less. The Girlfriend and I spent some time with friends in the Savannah, Georgia area, and got around a bit to check [...] June 13th, 2011 | Tags: Gerogia Sea Turtle Center, Jekyll Island, Jekyll Island Foundation, wildlife rehabilitation | Category: Nature, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentFifty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, as well as the first to orbit the planet, beginning what is widely considered the Space Age of human development and accomplishments. For the first time, we left the planet and set foot among the stars. Well, okay, that’s being [...] April 12th, 2011 | Tags: first human in space, Space Race, USSR, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 1, Yuri Gagrin | Category: Astronomy, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
Leave a commentDid I excite the wrong kind of people with that title? Ah, well, too bad. Courtesy yet again of Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True comes this live hummingbird webcam, and she has zeh babbies right now! That makes a nice subject for me to kick off National Wildlife Week. You can get [...] March 13th, 2011 | Tags: Allen's Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, livecam, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Selasphorus sasin, webcam | Category: Nature, Photography, Too Cool |
One commentAs wintertime drifts away here in the northern hemisphere, we’ll lose the opportunity to see the most recognizable constellation on earth in the universe by human standards still visible in the evening sky: Orion. Shown here, but technically not in its entirety (there are more stars making up the bow and such, out of [...] March 8th, 2011 | Tags: θ1 Ori C, Horsehead Nebula, M42, Orion, Orion Nebula, planet formation, star formation, stellar wind, Theta 1 Orionis C, Trapezium | Category: Astronomy, Science & Evolution, Too Cool |
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